Tried out this experiment today: opened two offline editors for a Google document. In one, I bolded the first word. In the second, I deleted it. Regardless of which client I turn on first, the word...

The FAQ of Google Wave Protocol says that [HTML] "does not have desirable properties" and that "HTML makes OT (Operational Transforms) difficult if not impossible" [1]. Why is this so? What problem...

I wonder if there is a tool/framework available that supports testing Google Wave Gadgets outside Google Wave. I know these two emulators (1 and 2), but I still always would have to upload my gadg...

I wanted to add 3 features to the robot from the tutorial here: http://code.google.com/apis/wave/extensions/robots/python-tutorial.html Before adding all these features, my robot is working as int...

I'm sure Wave doesn't poll the server every millisecond to find out if the other user has typed something... so how can I see what the other person is typing as they type? And without hogging the b...

When trying to call wave.getState() in my Google Wave gadget, I get back null (no state object). How can I initialize the Wave state object? I am working in the Wave Sandbox. My ModulePrefs ...

Sorry if this is well known but Googling for my answer only came up with links about making Google Wave gadgets. My question is, are there any Google Wave gadgets that allow for better collaborati...

I've been working on my first robot for google wave recently, a vital part of what it does is to insert inline replies into a blip. I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this! The API do...

Just got my wave sandbox invite today. Does anyone know of a .NET library for google wave? (client and server) I'm a c# programmer, not very familiar with the language that the Google samples are w...

Is a wave limited to the sharing of textual information (HTML), or am I correct in assuming that a wave can contain arbitrary data (represented in XML), so long as it also contains the javascript n...

What are the technologies employed in building Google Wave? Edit: I have moved and amalgamated the answers into an answer below, rather than here in the question where they were.